We read more words, have less conversation, see lots of videos, but see less eye-to-eye, shut our ears with headphones and talk much less. We take more selfies, but find it harder to understand oneself. We interact digitally with a poke, a wave, an emoticon and less with a gentle touch. Now we have BOTS, avatars, agents that befriend us to entice us into a relationship.

In the barrage of interactions everyday in today’s world I guess we are most often alone. Here is my creative take on this as a poem titled “He was very alone”.